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Workforce

SSAB University Challenge encourages students to develop innovative applications for high-strength steel

SSAB, a Nordic and U.S.-based steel company, invites students to participate in their University Challenge contest, held in conjunction with the Swedish Steel Prize competition. The contest is an opportunity for students to present their ideas for new, innovative solutions using high-strength steels. To enter, students (groups up to six participants or individuals) can submit a […]

July 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure opens membership to private construction, engineering firms

Private sector construction, engineering, planning and design firms are now able to join the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s (ISI) Sustaining Membership, which is designed for companies to be recognized for “competency and experience in the development of sustainable infrastructure projects.” ISI, in a partnership with Harvard’s Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, has created the Envision sustainable […]

June 11, 2015

Roadbuilding

Mississippi DOT announces Pittman as new roadway design engineer

Richard Pittman is the new Roadway Design division engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transporation. MDOT announced the appointment, stating the Jackson native will work with a new assistant in parsing out responsibilities to employees in the Roadway Design division.   The division is responsible for “the design and preparation of plans for construction of […]

March 16, 2015

Roadbuilding

Indiana DOT offers engineering scholarships

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is offering scholarships for full-time students seeking in undergraduate and graduate civil engineering programs at colleges or universities in the state. Scholarship recipients will have to work for INDOT for designated periods as a condition. Scholarships, award in amounts of $3,125 per semester or $2,083 per trimester, can be applied toward an […]

February 26, 2015

Business

PHOTOS: Tour John Deere world HQ; an engineering feat not unlike the company’s equipment

[imagebrowser id=117] In 1958 Deere & Company’s board of directors approving a radical and forward thinking design for it’s new Administrative Center, now the company’s world headquarters and one of the Midwest’s top architectural landmarks. The building, which opened in 1964, was the brainchild of William Hewitt, Deere’s president at the time, and the world-renowned […]

August 7, 2014

Business

STEM graduates are finding a weak job market. Why that could be a big opportunity to fix construction’s skilled labor woes

A recent article at Business Insider revealed an odd wrinkle in the job market. According to Census Bureau statistics, less than half the college graduates with STEM degrees (science, technology, engineering and math) find jobs in STEM related fields. This wouldn’t be surprising except for the fact that so many people bleat on like a […]

July 11, 2014

Construction Equipment

Crews pull half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place in record-breaking slide

Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. It is now the largest bridge in North America (perhaps the […]

April 14, 2014

Roadbuilding

Construction industry avoids list of 10 worst jobs for the future

When I saw a report in Kiplinger on the worst jobs for the future, I had to take a look. The good news is the construction industry isn’t on this list. I’m sure it has felt like the industry is one of the worst, especially as unemployment hit more than 20 percent during the height […]

December 3, 2013

Construction Equipment

The Original Ice Road Truckers: 15th-century Chinese workers used frozen paths to move 100-ton stones

Get the History channel on the phone because we’ve got a great idea for their next reality series. A new engineering study delves into the mammoth task Chinese workers in the 15th Century faced in building the Forbidden City and the findings shed light on a brilliant tactic. The city was built with massive stones, […]

November 18, 2013

Construction Equipment

Press explodes 800-lb. concrete cylinder with sheer force

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the engineering department has a pretty cool toy. It’s a giant mechanical press that can apply up to 3 million pounds of pressure on a given object. To show its strength at an open house, the engineers placed an 800-pound, 18-inches-wide concrete cylinder beneath the press and started applying […]

September 4, 2013

Workforce

GM’s FIRST Competition teaches kids to build, battle robots to build interest in STEM careers

What do you do with kids who think math and science are boring? Give them a pile of parts, some software and computers, and let them build a robot. That in a nutshell is the FIRST Competition, a nationwide program put together by General Motors that’s meant to fire up the imaginations of kids and […]

August 23, 2013

Construction Equipment

Christchurch’s cardboard cathedral is built to last a century

On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand that left 185 people dead and many buildings badly damaged—including the city’s gorgeous cathedral. The structure, built in 1864, was damaged so badly that it will need to be replaced. In the meantime, the city has a beautiful and extremely innovative stopgap in which […]

August 22, 2013